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18 gennaio 2019 alle ore 11:15 - Aula Disegno (Univ. Centrale) - (4)

Curriculum

Biosketch

Maria Pavesi, Professor of English language and Linguistics since 2002, graduated cum laude in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Bologna in 1981. She was awarded a one-year Fulbright scholarship and received a Master of Science in Multilingual/Multicultural Education from Florida State University. She then obtained a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (1986) and a doctorate degree in Linguistics from the University of Pavia (1990). Maria Pavesi teaches English language, English second language acquisition and audiovisual translation in the Department of Humanities where she is currently in charge of the Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. She was the Academic Coordinator of the Pavia University Postgraduate Programme in Foreign Language Teacher Training (1999-2002, 2013 and 2015) and served as Head of the Language Centre of the University of Pavia from 2005 to 2008. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Stockholm, Konstanz, Birmingham and Manchester and Visiting Professor at the University of Roehampton (academic year 2008-2009).

Her research has addressed several topics in English applied linguistics and has been mainly focussed on the acquisition and learning of English as a second/foreign language, the English of science, corpus linguistics and audiovisual translation. In these fields she has published widely, both nationally and internationally. Maria Pavesi has taken part in several government-funded research projects on corpora and multimodality in language teaching, linguistic analysis and translation. She also had a leading role in two EU projects on CLIL and on subtitling in second language acquisition. For the past few years she has been focussing on audiovisual translation, working on features of spoken language in Italian film dubbing and on audiovisual input in incidental second language acquisition. She has been a reviewer for the publisher Routledge and for the journals Textus, Journal of Pragmatics, The Translator and Meta. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the series Materiali Linguistici (Franco Angeli) and sits on the Advisory Board of the journal Perspectives. Studies in Translatology (Routledge). Maria Pavesi was the Principal Investigator of the international excellence project “English and Italian Audiovisual Language: Translation and Language Learning” (2010-2012) funded by the Alma Mater Ticinensis Foundation and is currently member of the core team on the AHRC-funded networking project entitled “Tapping the Power of Foreign Film: Audiovisual Translation as Cross-cultural Mediation” led by University of East Anglia.

Education

1981 University of Bologna - Degree cum laude in Foreign languages and literature

1982 Florida State University - Master of Science in Multilingual/Multicultural Education

1986 University of Edinburgh - Ph.D. in Linguistics

1990 University of Pavia – Doctorate in Linguistics

Teaching positions

1984-1985 Teacher of Italian: Institute for Applied Language Studies of the University of Edinburgh

Temi di ricerca

Second language acquisition (with special reference to the acquisition of English by Italian speakers)

Audiovisual input, spoken language and second language acquisition

Corpus linguistics: creation and analysis of a specialized corpora

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) – the acquisition of English as a means of instruction in schools

Scientific English

Progetti di ricerca

Recent research projects and networks

2010-2012 “English and Italian Audiovisual Language: Translation and Language learning”, an international excellence project founded by the Alma Mater Ticinensis Foundation: Project manager.

The project brought together researchers from the University of Pavia, the University of Malta and the University of Loughborough, working on various aspects of filmic speech, the semiotics of film, screen translation and second language acquisition via AV input. One of the major outcomes of the project is the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue, a parallel and comparable corpus at present comprising more than 700,000 words of Anglophone, dubbed and original Italian film transcriptions.

2015-2017 University of Pavia strategic theme “Towards a Governance Model for International Migration: an Interdisciplinary and Diachronic Perspective” (MIGRA- TI-N): Member of the sub-group working on the “Linguistic aspects of migration” and dealing with university students’ exposure to English in untutored contexts.

2016-2017 “Tapping the Power of Foreign Language Films: Audiovisual Translation as Cross-cultural Mediation”, Art and Humanities Research Council Grant AH/N007026/1: Member of the Core Team.

The project is an internationally and interdisciplinary network project funded as a platform to explore audiovisual translation as cross-cultural mediation. It is designed to develop our understanding of linguistic and cultural representations, as conveyed through subtitling and dubbing, and of audiences’ responses to foreign language films. Principal investigator: DrMarie-Noëlle Guillot (University of East Anglia), co-investigator: Dr Louisa Desilla (University College London).

The Centre aims to promote research in all fields of audiovisual translation and accessibility to audiovisual products in various contexts including cinema, television, live events, new media, museums and cultural spaces. It promotes and supports research on historical, linguistic, socio-cultural, cognitive, pragmatic and acquisitional aspects of audiovisual materials and their access by users, as well as the development and use of production technologies. At present the Centre comprises the Universities of Macerata, Pavia, Pisa, Roma Tre and Roma “La Sapienza” .

Pavesi Maria (1984) “The acquisition of relative clauses in a formal and in an informal setting: further evidence in support of the markedness hypothesis”. In David M. Singleton, David G. Little (eds) Language Learning in Formal and Informal Contexts.Dublin: IRAAL, pp. 151-163.